Three wickets in 9 overs and their No. 7 has a career average of 5. The other batsman in is an 18yo in training and thus struggling with PFL.

Might take 22 points after all.

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Bit close for comfort in the end, glad I wasn't around to watch it. My bowlers did a great job of cleaning up the tail this morning, but I'd set my batsmen to attacking just incase the bowlers had laboured a bit and we needed to score quick runs to win. As it was, my guys had plenty of time to win, threw their wickets away, and it's only because of prof/prof Kepler that we managed to chase down the total.

Apart from a slightly shoddy ending, I'm really pleased with the way the game has turned out. It's been very competitive, my tactics have worked and I managed to get all three days worth of income along with a victory with maximum bonus points.

Think I'm pretty much consigning myself to relegation in one-day, which I can probably live with. The fitness status in the first eleven: 6 energetic, 1 invigorated (allrounder), 3 lively (all bowlers), 1 sublime (the one who didn't bat today).

At this rate, I might consider splashing some cash on a superb bowler. Can you get one of those at 2 million?

Failed to spin out my match to three days, so spent Thursday reading about the Great England Transfer Controversy, wherein some idiot who wanted to quit decided to sell his entire team, and buy the most expensive players he could with the proceeds, then fire them. The transfers were subsequently reversed and the players reinstated, leaving the two sellers (Jon_Boy and Pob) somewhat shafted - particularly the former, because he'd spent the proceeds and is now staring at bankruptcy through no fault of his own.

Naturally, there's now a parade of idiots lining up to blame the sellers for the whole farrago. It's quite entertaining, if you like to watch trainwrecks in progress. Was quite surprised to discover that GMs frequently alter the amounts of transfers they think are unreasonable, however. Seems like a pretty dubious practice.